Abstract
Allow me to start with a basic, but not unimportant question: ‘When will the United States become a State Party of the International Criminal Court?’ Well, it is exactly this question which was put to me in an interview by the Süddeutsche Zeitung – a German newspaper – published on 28 June 2012, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the entry into force of the Rome Statute. The answer that I gave then is essentially the same as my assumption today: regrettably there is no chance that the United States will join the Court in the foreseeable future. But I assume, no, I believe that the United States will be a State Party at the latest around the year 2040, almost forty years after the entry into force of the Rome Statute – it took the United States also almost forty years to ratify the Genocide Convention.
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